Poetry Inside Out
Poetry Inside Out is the Center’s literary arts program that fosters imagination and builds student’s problem solving, critical thinking, and literacy skills through the translation and composition of poetry.
Working with accredited teachers and professional poet-translators, Poetry Inside Out students are given the tools that enable them to translate work by the world’s great poets, such as Pablo Neruda, Anna Akhmatova, Li Bai, and Mahmoud Darwish.
During a Poetry Inside Out residency, students delve into the words, lines, cadences, and structure of a poem as they become inspired, capable, and adventurous enough to compose their own creative works. The synergy of translation and poetry composition allows students to experience the power of language while building essential literary skills.
Poetry Inside Out offers both residency and professional development options.
Order Best of Poetry Inside Out
To order copies of Cyclops Wearing Flip-Flops or back issues of our annual Best Of PIO, anthologies. click here to go to our ordering page.
Get Involved
If you want to receive information about how to bring PIO to your school or classroom, have a look at our Get PIO In Your School page, or contact PIO at pio@catranslation.org.
To order copies of A Pocketful of Voices or previous volumes in our Best Of PIO series, click here to go to our ordering page.
Support Us
Poetry Inside Out is supported by the generous contributions of institutions, corporations, and people like yourself. To help keep this essential program operating, please consider giving us a donation today.
Poetry Inside Out is supported in part by grants from the California Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, The San Francisco Foundation, the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, Amazon.com, the Stocker Foundation, and the Fleishhacker Foundation.